Thursday, May 27, 2010

room updates.

Our room is getting there!
We've done a little bit to our bedroom and our bathroom...that's about it.
We hung up that picture for now. We have drapes to hang up! We don't have a curtain rod yet.

the cream colored afghan on the bed is made by my loving aunt Camille.
the colorful afghan is made by my favorite granny. it is so perfect for my...
yes my Eames rocker given to me as a wedding gift from my baybay!!!:) i love it!


we got our framed print at-

my favorite seat in the house.

rug from ikea. laundry basket was my dads when he was a kid.
its been so fun! its not done yet.
there is a mirror on Jon's side of the bed, but it hasn't been fully put together yet. i'll post pictures when it has.

our front door with our new (tiny) rug!

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

cookies!

my aunt gave me a cute recipe book at one of my showers.
i thought i'd try it out this week and of course i skipped through the meals and courses to the desserts.
i found cookies similar to the cookies you make for homemade oreos.
but with mini chocolate chips or mini M&M's. we did chocolate chips.
the recipe is from the "Worldwide Ward Cookbook. Mom's Best Recipes"
They're called "Six-Dollar Cookies"



It says to bake them for 13 minutes (the recipe comes from Utah). We baked them for 13 and they came out like this. The bottoms were a little bit crunchy.

this is when we baked them for 11 minutes. They were so soft. 11 minutes worked a lot better in California's altitude.

they were really good, but they were missing something. So i added frosting. This frosting is made with 2 cups of powdered sugar, 2 tablespoons of butter, 1.5 teaspoons of vanilla and 1/2 a block of cream cheese. it was so good!
these cookies taste like you're eating a really yummy cloud. let me know if you want the recipe!

Monday, May 24, 2010

our new house.

Here is a post loaded with pictures of our little house!!

This is the front door. (Oh and these are obviously 100% unedited)



standing in the front door looking in the house. to the right you have a stair case, right in front you have a large living room. this is the closet before the living room. to the left you have a bathroom/storage room and garage door.



two views of the front closet.



the big living room. our stuff..i know.



the living room going into the kitchen. two little entrances.



view of the kitchen from the front room.



the kitchen.



this is the bathroom that is to the left of the front door. behind us in the garage and the the left of us is...



the storage room which can be a laundry room if we had a washer/dryer...



the garage.



this is the staircase to the right of the front door. it has like 5 stairs, then turns and goes left to a full stair case.



this is in the middle of the staircase looking at the front door. isnt that ledge weird? I don't know what to do with it. anything?



again the front door standing above the landing.



this is the stair case with the landing, the front door is to the right.



linen closet at the top of the stairs. its the first door on the left. the stairs are right next to jon's left foot.



this is a picture of the hallway. at the end of the hallway to the right are the stairs. the first door on the right when you walk upstairs is the guest/craft room.



this is a picture of the guest room door.



guest.



guest.



this door is across the hall from the guest room. storage.



the last door at the end of the hallway on the right is our bedroom.



our bedrooooom.



happy about our closet...



across the hall from our room is our bathroom. SO annoying the mirror doesnt go all the way across the counter!!!! good thing we brought a mirror we took from my dads house when he remodeled!



the bathroom bathroom.



this is the garage from the outside. you can see the bathroom right across.

our new little house!! its a duplex connected to one other house.


i hope you enjoyed!! i will post "during" photos soon! our house is a mess still though...so I'm a bit ashamed to post pictures of it. i will though of course.

we can't alter the blinds ( THEY KNEW I HATED THOSE ) because the houses need to look the same from the outside. We can't alter the lighting either. If we want, we can paint. Preferably a light color so that its easy to cover up later. They paint every time someone moves out. I don't know if I'll spend the time painting. The carpet is pretty new and nice. I think that's about it. I'm going to add drapes to make it not so plain. We did our kitchen Black and White. I knew that the walls would be white and figured the appliances would be, and they are. So we got all black items to put in there. It looks so cute! Unfinished, but I will post pictures. Family, let me know if you want pictures of certain things. I want you to get the full effect. Even though I am sure you'll be here soon........

xoxo.

Thursday, May 20, 2010

we're here!!

We got married Tuesday May 11th. Spent a night in SLC, packed up Wednesday.
That night we stayed at the Marriott where we had our reception.
Kalie and Spencer DEMANN came over and we swam and hung out.
Thursday we met my dad and his wife, my aunt and uncle at my house and drove to Mesquite.
We left them in Mesquite and drove to Las Vegas just the two of us. We stayed in an amazing hotel.

Friday we drove to San Diego. We spent Friday and Saturday nights at our friends house in Carlsbad.
Sunday, Monday and Tuesday was spent in the hotel on base.
WEDNESDAY WE GOT A HOUSE!

I couldn't be happier.
The Marines came over and helped us move in.

Ever since, we have been unpacking and decorating.
I'm having so much fun decorating my own house.
Jon and I have pretty similar style.
I can go on and on about how much fun I'm having.
I'll show before and during pictures of the unpacking and decorating.
In the meantime, here is a picture of me with my new hair on our new bed in our new house.
Jon is downstairs hanging something up which is why this is a bejumbled hurried mess.
If he knew I was blogging right now....

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Engagements.

Taken by Kylie Nixon on December 26, 2009.
Salt Lake City, Utah.